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But that wouldn't be as interesting would it. "People who follow a camgirl like to have opinions about weird sex things"

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Dec 26, 2022

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Your sample isn't biased if you report your studies as studies of Aella followers and -adjacents

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She's right tho. The average aella twitter follower is likely closer to the median American in most beliefs than the average college student: the population of most psyche studies

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I agree with your point in general (Aella’s sample is biased, but all samples are), but the comparison here is unfair. Twitter is a MUCH bigger source of sample bias than going to college. The gender bias on Twitter alone makes it worse than college.

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1) lots of my respondents don't come from twitter, and i can measure how their responses differ 2) college stratifies by age, location, wealth, and culture, all things far less restricted by twitter followers

6:30 AM · Dec 27, 2022

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1) I didn’t know that! Where do the others come from? 2) is there evidence for this? Real question. Don’t something like 80%+ of Twitter users have a college degree or are college students? I figured that Twitter was basically “what if college but 70% male?”

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Other places on the internet! Last survey went viral on tiktok, I also post in obscure fb groups, reddit, Insta, fetlife, etc. and re:twitter, no; I track lots of things about my Twitter respondents closely and they are much broader than college students, primary of which is age

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